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The cocaine danger

... that taking in cocaine causes a reaction called a complement cascade. This occurs when there is a jump in the body's production of complement proteins. These proteins normally form in response to invading microorganisms, and build up on cell ...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

... will work with the current treatments. "This will complement existing anti-HIV therapies," said Professor henry. The advantage of multi-drug treatment is a reduction in the probability of a mutated virus escaping the treatment.The team has been working on the project for the past couple of years . ...

Detection of Cancer

...est in detecting cancers. The hope is that it will complement existing diagnostic procedures, and thereby improve the accuracy of cancer detection. The first stage of the test, C-Test1, uses a technique called mass spectrometry to search for the diagnostic molecule, which seems to be missing when cancer is pre...

Camera gives hope for detection of breast cancer

...aybe scintimammography, with the new camera, might complement it by locating cancers that would not otherwise be detected....

A new way out for heroin addicts

...n with cognitive behavioral treatment was a useful complement to methadone maintenance treatment....

Study On Self Measurement Of Blood Pressure

...ian’s office. They recommend self-measurement as a complement to conventional office measuement....

Brain Enzyme Found To Regulate Weight

...were not involved in the study , said the findings complement recent work in Britain in which the hormone ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone, also was found to affect AMPK levels. Studies in the past have shown that hormone replacement therapy won't be a simple cure for the nation's obesity woes. Resear...

Monitoring Blood Pressure

...s office therby recommending self-measurement as a complement to conventional office measureent....

Acupunture relieves pain and improves function in knee Osteoarthritis

...eoarthritis of the knee and serves as an effective complement to Normal care. This study was funded by the Natio...arch, establishes that acupuncture is an effective complement to conventional arthritis treatment and can be successfully employed as part of a multidisciplinary ...

Arthritis Patients Can Find Relief With Acupuncture

...earchers conclude that acupuncture is an effective complement to conventional arthritis treatment and can be successfully employed as part of a multidisciplinary approach to treating the symptoms of osteoarthritis....

Blindness may be genetic by nature

...is a variety of gene that encodes a protein called complement factor H (CFH). as people grow old, there happens very small damages to the eye tissue. Often there forms a combination of fats, proteins etc called drusen that affects the eye tissue s well. The particular variant of gene CFH causes up to seven time...

Healthy Feeding Guidelines for Children Ages 0 to 24 Months Issued

...ts in early childhood. The issued guidelines will complement and not replace similar guidelines that are available from early-feeding recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new guidelines will provide practical and useful recommendations base...

New Discovery May Help Treat Infertility

...fferent methods, the in vivo and in vitro studies, complement each other nicely and provide more precise answers to the role that the estrogen receptor beta plays in ovulation say researchers. Thus by making couples understand the reasons for their infertility, researchers say doctors can further define their...

Diabetes and heart attack diagnosis now made simple with twin magic

...a special is that the needles play a dual role and complement each other. The tiny medical gadgets are expected to be constructed of cheap throw-away plastic which would not only make glucose testing simple and painless, but would significantly cut down the time in diagnosis. Because the analysis is done insid...

Different Types Of Multiple Sclerosis May Be Treated Differently

... patients with evidence for antibody deposition or complement activation // -- immune cells that can cause tissu...noglobulin (proteins that serve as antibodies) and complement activation (the ability to combine with antibodies to destroy tissue) experienced moderate to marked...

Implants In The Ear Is Effective Against All Types Of Hearing Loss

...inued use of a hearing aid or future technology to complement a cochlear implant. Reporting in the August issue of the journal Ear and Hearing, researchers had compared patients with no residual hearing, patients with some residual hearing in one ear and patients with some residual hearing in both ears. The pa...

Scientists Developed Cheap Way To Assess Sleep

...ion of the spectrogram could serve as an important complement to traditional sleep staging, which shows cycles of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep and is obtained through polysomnography, a series of measurements that require the use an electroencephalogram (EEG) to record patients’ brain waves. Sour...

Aprotinin in the treatment of hemorrhagic shock trauma patients

...olytic activity, by inhibiting the plasmin-induced complement activation and by protecting the platelets adhesive surface receptors. It has been successfully used in cardiac and liver transplantation surgery. In view of its properties in clot formation, improved coagulation, and its antifibrinolytic activity,...

Web Based Psychotherapy for Depression

...sed therapy options should be pursued further as a complement or alternative to conventional treatment methods”. Dr Peter Haywood, clinical psychologist, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust said, "Self-help materials can be extremely helpful. Obviously it will not work for everybody and there is a shortage o...

Chromosome Ends Trigger DNA Damage Response For Telomere Protection

...ch ensures that each daughter cell receives a full complement of chromosomes would inevitably rip the fused chromosomes apart. The researchers assert that fusion breakage cycles scramble the genome over time, and cause genome instability, which is a hallmark of cancer cells, and this demonstrates the importan...

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